Episode #693: August 4, 2003

Topics covered:

• George W. Bush’s signaling to support the assault weapons ban was almost certainly a political calculation he had no intention of following through with, and he was very tight with the NRA

• HR 2038 was dead in the water by this point, and an attempt to have it considered in 2004 went nowhere

• Alex misreports that the Supreme Court is under the sway of international courts, basing his coverage on an op-ed that he clearly hadn’t read pre-show

• Alex misreports a story about two German nationals who were executed for committing a murder during a bungled bank robbery, which became an international incident

• Alex’s story of the origin of the term “kangaroo court” is dubious

• Mel Gibson and his dad both have deeply antisemitic histories